Greer's 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card

[RunningWild]

I've been thinking a lot about this book lately and I have it....somewhere (it's in the pole barn, in a box, someplace...) and so, I reordered it.  And then it occurred to me that I never really saw anyone talking about the book over the years.  Have any of you worked your way completely through the book?  Did it help?  Or did you just do one or two exercises and call it quits?

 

Your answers won't affect my purchase.  That's a done deal.  I just wondered if people found it useful?

[gregory]

I have read it. I found it very helpful indeed. It opens up options.

[DanielJUK]

When I first joined ATF in the early 2010's, everyone new to learning tarot was either working through 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card or Pollack's 78 degrees of Wisdom. Then came Biddy's eBook and then Benebell Wen's Holistic Tarot as the books everyone was talking about.

 

I have 21 ways in my reference collection and I find it useful. I like it helps you develop intuitive reading ideas and think of the cards in many different ways. If I am going to be really nitpicky, I find it hard to concentrate on so many things about each card. Social media and mobile phones has destroyed my concentration for long, deep studying but I am an expert at short information these days. So my issue with it now is that perhaps it is too meditative about the cards, that really is my only fault with it. Now I just want the bullet points and want to start reading and using the cards. I am much more a practical reader and want to go deep with the cards in my own practice. So that's my only negative about it these days.

 

Her specialist books (and available as ebooks) about the Court Cards and Reversals are really the best in the field, I turn to them fairly often if really stuck or needing a different perspective.

 

It's really worth going through these books though and going through them again when we think we are proficient because you pick up new stuff 🙂 

[Libra 58]

I bought the book quite recently but have not started reading it.

[Sar]

I used it extensively in my earlier tarot reading years.

[RunningWild]

I received the book week before last but then had company for about a week so I haven't cracked it open yet.  I'm going to try to work all the way through it.  It's a nice quiet activity I can do after everyone has gone to bed.  Now, I just have to decide which deck I want to use.

 

It appears that most just use it for a reference book of sorts.  I don't think of it as a beginner's book.  I don't need that.  I like systems and that's part of tarot's draw for me but I'd also like a little more freedom and a different perspective.